Program Faculty

Meet our Faculty & their Research Areas

At Cleveland State University, our faculty and staff drive innovation in education and research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and academic excellence.

George Chatimavroudis, Ph.D.

Title: Interim Chair, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Faculty Affairs.
Office: WH 305
Phone: 216-687-6899
Email: g.chatzimavroudis@csuohio.edu 
Research Interests: Biofluid mechanics, Cardiovascular imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Heart valve disease, Congenital heart disease, Experimental and computational fluid dynamics
 

Ben A. Blake, PhD

Title: Assistant College Lecturer
Office: Fenn Hall 319
Phone: (216) 687-6879
Email: benblake@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Programming Languages, Multiprocessor Systems, Operating Systems, Scheduling, Mobile Computing

Zicheng Chi, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor 
Office: Fenn Hall 343
Phone: (216) 687-4767
Email: z.chi@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Wireless Networks, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems

Sun Sunnie Chung, PhD

Title: Associate Professor of Practice 
Office: Fenn Hall 222
Phone: (216) 687-4661
Email: s.chung@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Big Data Analytics, Data Science, Text Analytics with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Question Answering System (AI), Machine Learning Based Intrusion Detection System, Cyber Security and Privacy of Cloud-Based Big Data and Deep Learning Systems, Optimization of Massively Parallel Big Data Processing Systems

Robert Fiske, MSSE

Title: Assistant College Lecturer
Office: Fenn Hall 315
Phone: 216/687-2589
Email: r.fiske@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Development of Tools to assist in creating classroom content.

Yongjian Fu, PhD

Title: Associate Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 225
Phone: (216) 687-5518
Email: y.fu@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Software Engineering, Data Mining, Web Mining.

Apostolos Kalatzis, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 223
Phone: (216) 687-5407
Email: a.kalatzis@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Computational physiology, machine learning, robotics, and human factors.

Sathish Kumar, PhD

Title: Associate Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 218
Phone: (216) 687-4862
Email: s.kumar13@csuohio.edu
Research Interests:  Cybersecurity, Data Science and Analytics, Intelligent Cyber Physical Human Systems, Smart Cities and Disaster Resilience & Emergency Management.

Sanchita Mal-Sarkar, PhD

Title: Associate College Lecturer
Office: Fenn Hall 224
Phone: (216) 687-7524
Email: s.malsarkar@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Hardware Security & Trust, Fault-tolerant Networks, Soft/Granular Computing & Risk Assessment, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Becky Odom-Bartel, PhD

Title(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Founding Director of Research for the Center for Computing Education and Instruction. Office: Julka Hall 311
Phone: (216) 523-7136
Email: r.odombartel@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Computer Science Education, Pre-service education, Research Practitioner Partnerships, Mixed-Methods Research, Computer Science in Secondary Education.

Sujan Poudyal, PhD

Title: Assistant College Lecturer 
Office: Fenn Hall 321
Phone: (216) 687-2588
Email: s.poudyal@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing.

Janche Sang, PhD

Title: Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 218
Phone: (216) 687-4780
Email: j.sang@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Parallel & Distributed Computing, Simulation, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Compiler and Performance Measurement.

Aditi Singh, PhD

Title: Assistant College Lecturer
Office: Fenn Hall 228
Phone: (216) 687-5178
Email: a.singh22@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Gen AI, Text-to-Image, Text-to-Video, Computer Vision, Human-Robot Interaction.

Nigamanth Sridhar, PhD

Title: Provost & Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 437
Phone: (216) 687-5341
Email: n.sridhar1@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Component-oriented Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks.

Haodong Wang, PhD

Title: Associate Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 219
Phone: (216) 687- 4730
Email: h.wang96@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Security/Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Information Retrieval and Efficient Data Management in Wireless Networked Embedded Systems, IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN, and Cognitive Radio.

Jackie Woldering, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Office: Fenn Hall 209
Phone: (216) 523-7505
Email: j.woldering@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Operating Systems, Assembly Language, Networking, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Robotics, FPGAs.

David Xiong, PhD

Title: Assistant College Lecturer 
Office: Fenn Hall 335 Phone: (216) 523 - 7475
Email: w.xiong15@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Concurrency control protocol in Database, 3D Programming, Volume Rendering, Web Programming.

Jingru Zhang, PhD  

Title: Assistant Professor 
Phone: (216) 687- 2589
Email: j.zhang40@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Algorithms and Data Structures, Computational Geometry, Theoretical Computer Science.

Tianyun Zhang, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 220
Phone: (216) 687-4668
Email: t.zhang85@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Convex and Non-convex Optimization.
 

Ye Zhu, PhD

Title: Professor
Office: Fenn Hall 433
Phone: (216) 687-9749
Email: y.zhu61@csuohio.edu 
Research Interests: Network Security & Privacy, Computer Networking & Distributed Systems, and Pervasive Computing.